Converting an EC2 AMI to vmdk image

I tried so much and I was giving up, but at the end I succeed!

I've managed to boot with an Amazon Linux AMI ported under vmware!

I'm almost a newby, but I did it, after hours of trials, substituting the original amazon kernel with a vmlinuz-2.6.32-38-generic taken from an ubuntu 64 10.04 distro.

I just get a lot of errors because the amazon configuration inside the AMI is looking for something in an internal address that obviously it doesn't find. It's the /usr/bin/cloud-init, I think.

But I can login inside, and it seems that everything is working!

Thanks for your help!!

I've written this blogpost with step by step instructions to migrate from AMI to Vmware.

Hope this helps!

The official kernel Amazon derived theirs in their 2011.09 distribution, ie 2.6.35.14.

You can probably get the source package for the Amazon one with get_reference_source, but I wouldn't expect it to work outside of Amazon anyway.